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Happy Birthday Diane!
from LUCIE SCOTT
Diane
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SCOTT ALSWORTH hears the call to burn down and rebuild the video game industry from the bottom up
The Chinese language only introduced a feminine pronoun in the 1920s. Now, it might adopt a gender-inclusive one, suggests JANET DAVEY
ALEX HALL is intrigued by a detailed history of Gaza that demonstrates its historic resilience and changing economy
RON JACOBS welcomes the long overdue translation of an epic work that chronicles resistance to fascism during WWII
MAYER WAKEFIELD is chilled by the co-dependency of two lost souls as portrayed by German communist playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz
I never saw such dignity as you showed us on that night.
I never saw such grace as when you stood for what was right.
I’d never seen such loyalty until I witnessed you in place
And now I see the gratitude and joy upon your face.
The pride of 10 elections and the Mother of the House,
a phenomenal woman who deserves a nation’s praise.
Happy Birthday & many happy returns.
Lucie Scott is former BAME officer for Hackney North CLP
Poetry submissions to thursdaypoems@gmail.com.
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